Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.

Los Angeles, California 90095-1575

Abstract: Rowland Hill Harvey (1889-1943) was a social worker in Chicago and Los Angeles (1910-15), and later, an associate professor
of history at UCLA. He wrote
Samuel Gompers, Champion of the Toiling Masses (1935) and
Robert Owen, Social Idealist (1949). The collection consists of manuscripts and printed material documenting Rowland Hill Harvey's publications and talks
on American history.

Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Language:
English.

Administrative Information

Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including
copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the
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Harvey was born on March 24, 1889 at Battle Creek, Iowa; social worker in Chicago and Los Angeles, 1910-15; BA (1918) and
MA (1920), University of Southern California; Ph.D, Stanford University, 1923; instructor in history, University of Iowa,
1924; instructor in history (1924-25), assistant professor (1925-30), then associate professor, UCLA; wrote
Samuel Gompers, Champion of the Toiling Masses (1935) and
Robert Owen, Social Idealist (1949); he died on March 10, 1943.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of manuscripts and printed material documenting Rowland Hill Harvey's publications and talks on American
history. Includes copies of speeches and other research material on Samuel Gompers, as well as correspondence, clippings and
other printed material related to Harvey's book,
Samuel Gompers, Champion of the Toiling Masses (1935).

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Harvey, Rowland Hill--Archives.

Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924--Research.

University of California, Los Angeles--Dept. of History--Faculty--Archives.

Container List

Carbon Copies of Speeches by Samuel Gompers, Including Extracts and Synopses